yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate General] Drachen:
I don't think the problem with the iPhone 4 is the normal attenuation problem you have when you put something like your hand over an antenna to attenuate the signal. With the iPhone 4 you are actually physically touching the phone antenna and shorting it with the other antenna using your skin as a bridge. The "death grip" for the iPhone 4 can be as simple as putting your index finger across the black gap between the antennas on the lower left corner. That's why Apple's $30 rubber band works.

I've been in high-signal areas all day so I haven't really had a chance to see how much of a problem the signal drop is when you have your hand over the bottom slider plate. I lose 1-2 bars, but I'm not getting any statistically significant difference using speedtest.net.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samfreese:
I've done my searches here, and keep finding dead threads, or no real answers. My friend has an evo(me too, but I got mine rooted), and he wants to root. He is running 1.47 and hboot 0.79. I keep getting main version is older. I've used simpleroot to do this twice, so I know I'm using it correctly. Also switched SD cards. Another friend had the same thing, but his rooted. Is there anything I can do? Help me get root on his phone, and I'll donate a case of beer/dinner/whatever up to $20. First right answer gets it. Thanks! FOrgot to mention, I've been using simpleroot OTA, and it worked on mine and one another phone, but not this one
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacc1234:
I had the same issue, when doing simple root it asks you to visit the flash website. When you do make sure to refresh the page again after the flash game loads. Once I did that I was able to fully root.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonathaflores:
here this would work its way faster and easier

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=720565

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=F8UN6Z3V93DL6
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samfreese:
Been down that road about twenty times. No dice. Thanks for the suggestion, though

jonathanflores: Forgot to mention, simpleroot is what I've been using. Doesn't work.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] #Winning#:
are you wanting to just get back to 1.32 or trying to root 1.47?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samfreese:
I'm trying to gain root access for wifi tether. That's all that matters is wireless tether, and not paying $30 a month for it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jahouse:
Make sure you wipe the phone and reset it back to stock before attempting the simple root method. he may have loaded something that is messing with the flash bug used to gain access.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donatom3:
Make sure you dont' get a write error on step 3 when it asks you to go to the flash site. If you do start at step 1 again. The flash part is the key since that's the exploit they're using to get the old HBoot onto the EVO.

I got a write error at first. I put back in my 8gb card formatted it, started from step 1 followed every step to a T and was fine.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samfreese:
This was done multiple times. At least 8 times, and that's minimum

Hmmm...I'll check. Thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donatom3:
The Write error in step 3 appears briefly in the command window that pops up and it still lets you hit enter and continue like it worked.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phyllip J FRy:
I had some issues on a friends evo with simpleroot. I found that the issue was not all files were being pushed properly to the device. I checked after step 1 (booting into Windows, checking the SD card.) I noticed that the flash file was not on the SD card some of the times. Check that, make sure you have all the files.

Once I verified that all the files were on there, it worked perfectly.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donatom3:
That's a good piont the writing step in step 1 can take longer. You gotta make sure it showed everything go through. One file takes 5 minutes and shows nothing on the screen as it's copying. You may want to check the SD card afterwards that all the files it said it copied are present on the card.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SteelH:
Use the manual method I posted originally (simpleRoot is based off of it). It works, I've done 4 EVOs with it personally.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oddlou:
Have you tried Unrevoked3? unrevoked .com/recovery
[Vibrant General] hpz937:
anyone know what these are for?

they are hard to see, use a flashlight on the black part next to the earpiece
[Vibrant General] cashless:
Proximity sensor.
[Vibrant General] utahcon:
There seems to be two of them, are they both proximity sensors?
[Vibrant General] borodin1:
1 is proximity sensor, the other one is light sensor.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] sfreemanoh:
OK, I know there's been other threads, and recommendations to check the wiki, etc etc. I've been looking through old threads for probably a half hour, and the only threads for official rom's I can find are for the MR1 or MR2 updates, or other threads asking for where to download the official ROM. And I can't check the wiki, since it's apparently down right now.

So...is there any chance anyone knows where to get a copy of the full ROM, and will let me know where it is? I want to check out some of NRG's awesome looking ROM's, but not before I get a rollback option in place in case if I do something really stupid and brick my phone. Any assistance would be awesome. Thanks guys.
[Vibrant General] Tempestrs4:
Does anyone know how to make the Vibrant show the Facebook photo as a contact photo instead of the Google contacts photo? On CM5.0.8 all you had to do was edit the contact and choose the facebook photo as the default?
[Vibrant General] cashless:
you can use SyncMyPix from the market or you can go into. each. contact. and. select. "link contact". then. go. to. FB. and. link. them... one... by... one...

FARK!

I can not NOT wait until we get a stock Froyo rom on this thing.
[Vibrant General] bromat80:
I believe you go to accounts and sync and add facebook.
[Vibrant General] bromat80:
I forgot to add the part after you go to accounts and sync, you have to add the facebook account.
[Vibrant General] reuthermonkey:
mine did this automagically...
[Vibrant General] miclflores:
What do you mean by "add the facebook account"?
[Vibrant General] dcam1075:
Under Accounts and Sync you select add account. FB will be one of the options. Add that and select contacts from its settings and it will automatically link your phone contacts and sync the FB profile pictures to your phone contacts pictures. It is pretty easy and works great!
[Vibrant General] robkonz:
Clarification I think

I think that I have the same question and its has not been answered yet. The problem is that the acounts are already linked; facebook and google. But it is using the google picture as the default. I have tried changing it manually but it always revert back to the goole picture. Is there a way to change the default setting, Any sugestions?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Wolfas:
Hi,

it is quite strange that Raphael section still doesn't have this topic, really popular among other device users

So, here is my today screen, quite simple, but elegant :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Wolfas:
So, nobody wants to show off their stylish home screens? :)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Android Development] naoki66:
10/07/10] XDAndroid - Topaz 2.2 Froyo Beta v2

i have boot android 2.1 yesterday and worked great

.（http://htcandroid.xland.cz/XDANDROID.21.6.10.AOSP.7z

）

however,i dislike the 2.1 （no sound）and i want to change to 2.2.

so i delete all the android file on my SD card root

and then,i download the 2.2 （http://htcandroid.xland.cz/XDANDROID.2.2.AOSP.10.7.10.BETA.V2.7z

）....put them all at the sd card root

and now,when i run the haret.exe,my d2 just freeze on the task rpcroutrt :15 blocker for more than 120 seconds.,

i don't even see any android interface

any idea what cased it? plz help thx~

the photo is there。 http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=361438&stc=1&d=1279298605
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Android Development] chilean03n:
Format!

Maybe you could format your SD card?

That happened to me, so I just formated, and put the files in again. :D
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Android Development] naoki66:
formated，and the problem persists。
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Android Development] ReWind402:
Try the 2.1 build, after first boot data store is created, delete the system.sqsh and place the 2.2 system.ext2. Use the startup.txt v2, update to latest rootfs, zimage... Dont delete anything
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Android Development] naoki66:
try 2.1 build，and del nothing,just overwrite to 2.2.still boot

fail.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Android Development] ReWind402:
Did you tried some old rootfs? However the sound is not working in 2.2 build.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Android Development] naoki66:
still no sound?????

Maybe I should try HTC G3.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Android Development] ReWind402:
No, the sounds is not working in this build, its a complex problem for TD2 & TP2.
[Vibrant General] Krycek:
After having some major speed issues using Touchdown on my new Vibrant, I was directed to this thread discussing issues with the way Samsung stores app data on the phone. Apparently the app data is stored on the internal SD vs. NAND and that is considerably slower. Here are the two methods to fix:

*Both Methods require ROOT*

*Method 1 limits the space of app data, which can possibly cause issues*

*Method 2 requires writing a new Kernel, which comes with it's own possible issues*

*READ THE THREADS!*

Method 1: http://android.modaco.com/content/s...298/got-the-stalling-problem-rooted-try-this/

Method 2: http://android.modaco.com/content/s...ed-real-fix-for-the-stalling-lagging-problem/

Hopefully this will be helpful moving forward with the development of this phone!

Note: I have used method 1 which moved the app data from the SD space to the NAND space which significantly increased the speed of my phone, but PLEASE read the links and associated discussion. You are limited to 130MB app space on NAND, which can be limiting depending on which apps you use. Method 2 purports to fix this limitation...

How to check how much app memory you are currently using:

adb shell
su
cd /data/data
busybox du -h|busybox grep M

How to apply Method 1:

adb shell
su
busybox cp -rp /data/data /dbdata
mv /data/data /data/data.bak
ln -s /dbdata/data /data/data
reboot

How to undo Method 1 (no loss):

adb shell
su
busybox cp -rp /dbdata/data /data/data.tmp
rm -r /data/data
mv /data/data.tmp /data/data
reboot

How to undo Method 1 (restore to point of application):

adb shell
su
rm /data/data
mv /data/data.bak /data/data
reboot
[Vibrant General] TGA_Gunnman:
Awesome, thanks for doing the parsing and putting out a procedure. Works great. No more lag.
[Vibrant General] rooteroa:
Thanks, just tried it out on mine.
[Vibrant General] justanothercrowd:
BE WARNED you will run into issues if your application data goes over 130MB. There is a better way to do this which includes a custom kernel with ext3/4 support and symlinking to the ext partition instead of the small NAND space.

Find it herehttp://android.modaco.com/content/samsung-galaxy-s-s-modaco-com/313365/updated-real-fix-for-the-stalling-lagging-problem/

I havent felt the need to perform either of these ATM. Please warn people of the consequences especially if your just telling them "Hey this will make your phone faster!" I do notice its explained in the article you linked from but not everyone will read that and then when they start having issues they will have no idea what to do. For those that completed this method you might want to revert it and go a better route. 130MB isnt enough room.
[Vibrant General] Krycek:
Agreed...I figured people would read the link, but you never know. Will update accordingly. THX!
[Vibrant General] landale:
I am trying test out method 1 but I keep getting stuck. I type in cp -rp /data/data /dbdata into adb but it comes back with cp: not found. Any ideas what I am doing wrong here?
[Vibrant General] Krycek:
Add busybox before the cp command; i.e.: busybox cp etc...
[Vibrant General] landale:
Thanks, figured it was something simple like that. Still new to this Android stuff after years of custom WinMo roms and hybrid Blackberry roms.
[Vibrant General] tq745:
i'm a little sketchy about applying method 2...will installing a modified kernal have an effect when samsung rolls out the update for 2.2?
[Vibrant General] Krycek:
I concur, but that is also probably the "right" way to do it. The nice part about method 1 is it is easily reversible. I will update post 1 in a minute with how to check what your current usage is to see if you are close to the 130MB limit.
[Vibrant General] landale:
Thanks, just checked my usage and was only using 21MB thus far. I figure the 130MB limit should suit me fine until Samsung issues a fix. It looks like the European devices already have a new firmware that speeds it up quite a bit so probably won't be too much longer here in the US either.
[Vibrant General] acjames:
Im not going to do either. Im going to wait for an official fix.
[Vibrant General] anomalous3:
I'm about to get a vibrant; if you can get parted installed wouldn't it be fairly simple to just unmount and partition the internal SD card into fat32 and ext3/4, and then maybe just update fstab? (parted lets you resize existing partitions to make room for new ones, but I'm not sure if the Samsung firmware uses fstab or something else, coming from a MyTouch here).
[Vibrant General] tq745:
i doubt it...it's the reason you need to install the modded kernal so that it recognizes the ext3 or ext4 partition. without it the partition is useless. i personally wouldnt use method 2 as there is no way to revert as of now.
[Vibrant General] Digitalthug:
Man i dont understand wtf is going on. Im usually good with adb and whatnot but I cant seem to get su permissions. I type "adb shell" and it goes thru. But when I type "su" it comes back 'permission denied'. Of course, I applied the update.zip to get my phone rooted. Superuser works and I have my rooted apps working.

Anyone have any ideas?! :confused:
[Vibrant General] oDeACoNo:
I'm not infront of my PC atm, but try this.

adb mount

adb shell

su

If mount doesn't work try remount.

Let me know if this works for you, once i'm home I can double check.
[Vibrant General] Digitalthug:
Already tried that. I have a Nexus One and adb remount works on that but for this phone it says 'remount failed: No such file or directory'
[Vibrant General] cjsblues:
You might have already tried this, but make sure the phone is unlocked (at home screen) when you run the su command from your workstation... superuser will then prompt and you can allow it to run.

I've noticed that if the screen is locked it won't prompt and just give the permission denied message.

Sent from my Vibrant (with lag fix and loving it)
[Vibrant General] diaa08:
just did method 1 and the difference is incredible. as far as method 2 goes, will custom roms have this ability from the get go or do we need the official samsung update?
[Vibrant General] zenlakin:
I just want to confirm that this fix works for the US version of the Galaxy S (Samsung Vibrant) right?
[General Questions and Answers] iPollesion:
Yes,

As the title asks, does anyone know how to change the taskbar clock color in Windows Mobile 6.5; not 6.5.x.

I've read around and was only able to find some posts about an .odex file, but nothing else about this issue.

As I'm using a GTX theme and taskbar for 6.5 I want to change the font color of the taskbar clock to black as well; not just the title text in the taskbar.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Nullstring:
My very first Windows Phone 7 application.

Honestly, I cannot yet think of any good application tool so .. just for fun .. I made this

Tap Challenge

If you have your Windows Phone 7 device, can you give it a try? :D
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] Windcape:
hah, that's pretty cool.
[Windows Phone 7 Software Development] tealcwu:
Deploy successfully on device but cannot been loaded. Perhaps the code needs to be update with WPDT Beta.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Antiskunk:
Hi, I installed ADW Launcher, and it worked fine. But recently it takes a long time to get to the home app. Pressing home from ANY application takes a minimum of 1.5 seconds, which doesn't seem like a lot, but it's noticable when it takes something like 3-4 seconds just to load the home app.

I switched Home caching on (never kills) but it's still slow...

Any Ideas? Froyo FRF91, Stock.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Antiskunk:
Bump, anyone?
[Vibrant General] jaredangus:
I took a picture and the picture looked good until I zoomed in. Despite taking a "superfine" picture on the maximum available resolution, zooming in resulted in an extremely grainy photograph. Pictures taken on my HTC Raphael running Windows Mobile look far better.

I am still happy with the phone and I am sure the picture quality will be fine for what little I use it for, but I really expected a much higher level of detail.
[Vibrant General] gTen:
Have you considered the Galaxy S allows for larger zoom?
[Vibrant General] jaredangus:
I moved the pictures from the Raph to my Galaxy S, so I am viewing them on the same platform.
[Vibrant General] gTen:
But the picture you took on your ralph is how many megapixels?

Either way a photo when viewed on a monitor will be resized to 1080 max.your just Digital Zooming farther...megapixel doesn't mean quality..it just means your capturing more
[Vibrant General] jaredangus:
3.2 Megapixels on the Raph. I'm going to mess around with settings and see if I can get a better picture, but I was really hoping for this phone to have everything working well out of the box without tweaking.
[Vibrant General] cashless:
It's not disappointing because I wasn't expecting much. But the signal to noise ratio of the pics is low. You can see quite a bit of grain. I do like the color saturation.

Meh, it works as a phone cam.

So far with the GPS/Compass issues and the average quality cam, I'm not considering this a "superphone" or a premium Android device. It's just ok. And I'm ok with that.
[Vibrant General] gTen:
it is working well....take your pc and resize the images to 1920x1080...

again megapixels does not give you quality..but allows you for farther zoom..if you zoom in more...I have a 6mp canon camera...when I zoom it it looks grainy as well..but when its printed or uploaded..it is rescaled to proper resolution..then it looks perfect...
[Vibrant General] kolyan:
More megapixels equals less quality on any small device.

Ps I thought that Vibrant didnt have gps issues, no ?
[Vibrant General] bdjnk:
I noticed the same grainy quality and am slightly disappointed as well. But if you make sure you are in the best mode for your environment the quality improves appreciably. Still, the issue is not happy making.
[Vibrant General] gTen:
From what I read...the GPS issue is only with Google Maps when there was one, when using a GPS software there was no issue..but firmware upgrade fixed that either way..

@bdjnk - Again..this is to be expected...megapixels != quality...it only allows for more zoom...the quality when compared was no different then a 5mp canon camera...so far the Galaxy S actually has the best camera of any phone of the same class...
[Vibrant General] cashless:
Wrong, the GPS issue is actually more pronounced in other apps, for example, My Tracks.

Firmware upgrade didn't fix anything.

GPS and compass both are ****ty.
[Vibrant General] reuthermonkey:
Apparently the gallery isn't zooming in on photos like it should. Instead of comparing on your phone in the gallery, transfer the photos to a PC and compare on the PC.

You'll notice the GalaxyS pictures come out just fine.
[Vibrant General] kolyan:
Droid X might've nailed it. Dual Leds, panoramic shotting....
[Vibrant General] nupicasso:
I moved over from a Nexus One...and I feel the same way...i love this phone, but the picture quality is not on par with the Nexus. I'm going it's a software issue and can be fixed.
[Vibrant General] gTen:
They did a side by side of a Galaxy S and DroidX camera...the Galaxy S pretty much destroyed the DroidX..mostly in video recording...

http://thedroidguy.blogspot.com/2010/07/samsung-captivate-vs-motorola-droid-x.html
[Vibrant General] kolyan:
i dont really use Video feature on cellphones, but I do use Camera for shots when I dont have my S90 around.

I noticed on then vid that Galaxy was recording in 480p and Droid X in 720p.....whats up with that ?
[Vibrant General] gTen:
Yes I noticed that too..but for some reason the 480p version came out still better then the Droid 720p...its possible he accidently had it set to 480p or uploaded it as 480p

The G being an actual photo camera...

http://gadgetsdna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/smartphone-comparisons_original1.jpg
[Vibrant General] bdjnk:
I didn't mention the word megapixel. I was talking about the noticable graininess that exists when viewing pictures, taken with the vibrant, at 100% zoom.

Hm, not really. I am not an expert, but to my eye the same level of noticeable graininess is present on the phone and on my computer.
[Vibrant General] gTen:
What I am saying is this is generally normal on an unprocessed image with high megapixel count..resize both images to 1920x1080 (which is maximum screen resolution now) and you can see what the actual quality is...

Or are you expecting the phone to act like microscope?

to explain, if you do 100% zoom a 1mp would look better then a 3mp, a 3mp will look better then a 5mp..a 5mp would look better then a 20mp..its just how it is..
[HD2 Accessories] airwater9:
Nice review. How much run time are you getting out of this new battery?
[HD2 Accessories] Kalavere:
I have seen a lot of reviews of this battery and I don't know why I opened this thread as I'm fed up of reading about it. BUT, this was an awesome review of a battery I thought I knew all about, bravo. :p
[HD2 Accessories] lemonspeakers:
since the battery is now bigger and heavier, do you think that it can slip out and make the back battery cover fall off?

and do you think you can take a picture of it next to a ruler or something? I just want to get an idea of how much bigger that cover makes it.

your review is great! thanks!
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paggps:
Hello.

I have my Xperia X1i with stock ROM R3AA010; this ROM cames with Opera 9.5, and I´m thinking on upgrading it to Opera 10. But there is no way to uninstall Opera 9.5 in "Remove Software".

Is it necesary to uninstall the old ROM Opera 9.5, or I have just to install the new Opera 10, and it will safely overwrite the old version ?

By the way: is Opera 10 faster/better than Opera 9.5 ?

Thank you very much.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] taarzaan:
hi,

I've installed opera10 and it looks and works better without stylus, more compatible with some sites. It's independent from 9.5.

I think you have to change rom to be able to remove 9.5.

..I think youtube won't work without extra hacking.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enigma1nz:
Opera 10 is way better than anything that came before it. But some people may disagree and I express my personal opinion only.

Whatever comes with the ROM cannot be uninstalled, unless added to be removed by the developer. You can install Opera 10, make it a default browser and point whatever shortcuts to it while still having Opera 9.5. Only versions installed by you will be overwritten by subsequent version installations, but not the ones that are already there inbuilt so to speak.

As an example, I am using NUTS version that came with Opera 9.5, I prefer 10, so installed 10. However, the 9.5 is removable, so I just removed it and love the NUTS forever more, hehe. Youtube also works fantastically well, nothing extra is required.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TAMHAN:
Hi,

I am on stock, and have both versions installed.

You have two icons, and thats that ;(.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paggps:
Thank you everybody for your help.

I will install Opera 10 and try it, keeping both versions installed.